3 ~ if you were to ask me when I stopped believing [audio/action]

[menial]

['December 18th. According to this calendar, anyway. My body calendar, if such a thing exists, is stuck somewhere in the limbo between May and December. If I'm expecting the world to change again, it should be today, shouldn't it?

...Tch, that's a stupid hope. I haven't heard anything from the other Brigade members, Haruhi evidently hasn't either, and all in all, this anniversary is coming a lot earlier than I'd hoped. Though even if it had been a year later, it would've been earlier than I'd hoped.

There must be something about this season that inspires all this melancholy...']

[voice; filtered away from Haruhi // 40%]

Yo. Quick question, I guess... Was anyone here ever in a different world from their home before they came here? Or an alternate version of their world or anything like that.

[He starts to think that that might be a bit of a giveaway.] Sorry if someone's asked that before. Guess I'm wondering if anyone figured anything out about traveling between dimensions or whatever before they came here.

[action]

[And, no longer content to sit in his house on a day like this, still looking for some kind of hint or anything like that, he can be found in the library, pulling down book by book methodically and... not reading them, just flipping through them very quickly, apparently looking for something.

Or, afterwards, trudging aimlessly through the plaza with a discontent expression.]

Comments

[menial]

Yeah. But that's what you'd hope, right? Then it's still possible. Just impractical.

[neverplaysfair]

It might still be possible. It also might not. No one has been able to find out for sure either way.

[menial]

...Helpful.

So what does everyone know about it?

[neverplaysfair]

I've spoken to at least three people from different worlds who were previously able to travel between worlds before being brought here. None of them have been able to leave.

[menial]

Fair enough, then...

I figured there wouldn't be a solution. Just wanted to know what there was.

['And now I kinda wanna know who this is I'm talking to, but, I mean, if someone went to the trouble of covering the camera and all that, it's like yelling "Stop, thief!" Not gonna help. And I have zero skill that would allow me to figure it out. Forever a mystery, I guess.']

[neverplaysfair]

I wish I had a solution to offer.

[menial]

Well, at least you have a secret anonymous identity.

[neverplaysfair]

I do. It keeps the confidence of those I've spoken to about things they might not want getting out.

After all, I'll answer your question, but I don't know if I can trust you with more than the answer alone.

[menial]

I suppose so, but it leaves me unable to speak about anything that I'd care about if it got out, huh?

Not that I'm not already familiar with asymmetrical communication.

[neverplaysfair]

Then I suppose that's just a shame.

[menial]

It's the tradeoff, anyway.

[neverplaysfair]

I hold their confidences higher than yours. Maybe we'll converse on different terms some time later.

[menial]

Seems like it'll be an event to look forward to.